Eviction Notice

Sort of.

Most RV parks have a policy that prohibits renters from staying longer than a month. Management advised me yesterday that since I'd been here a month now, I'd have to leave if the park filled up and there was nowhere to accommodate new visitors who came in. Well, one came in this morning, so around noonish I was asked to give up the full-service connection I had and boondock for the rest of my stay.

"To boondock", in RV parlance, is a verb meaning "to camp". No electricity, no water hookup, no sewer. Well, I haven't had that experience yet, and would really rather do it on my own terms, with some planning and provisioning first. Plus, it's supposed to get cold tonight and no electrical hookup means no furnace. So I unhooked everything (including [gulp] my satellite dish and tripod), packed things up nice and tight, and left. I paid my rent and electric bill, which was very low, by the way, and decided to head into Hondo proper to see if there was a night's space in Countryside RV Park.

And there is! So that's where I'll spend tonight, and then head out early tomorrow morning to see if Wagner's got my car ready to go. I might go to Walmart and get a few victuals before I leave, hopefully early afternoon, for Alpine. It took me maybe ten minutes to get hooked up here; I'm gettin' good at this! 'Course, I didn't hook up the dish yet; I'm pretty much positive I won't be able to get it positioned right, and I really don't want to stand there, fiddling with it and looking stupid.